Read the excerpt from act ii of romeo and juliet. benvolio: romeo! my cousin romeo! romeo! mercutio: he is wise, and, on my life, hath stol'n him home to bed. benvolio: he ran this way, and leapt this orchard wall. call, good mercutio. mercutio: nay, i'll conjure too. which adaptation best maintains the original meaning and tone of the underlined part of the excerpt? he is probably pretty tired he snuck out of here he has gone off to sleep he went to take a rest

The correct answer is C. he has gone off to sleep.

Explanation:

This is the only answer that maintains both the meaning and the tone. Option B "he snuck out of here" is too informal, and options A and D do not maintain the meaning. They impli that Romeo was tired or that he went to take a rest, but what Mercutio is actually saying in the excerpt is that he bets Romeo went home to sleep. Thus, the correct answer is C. he has gone off to sleep.

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)